Hanger-bolt



No. s|3,933.

Y Patented Nov. 8, |898. V. &. K. MCCREERY.

H A N G E R B 0 L T.

(Application :tiled May 5, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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INVENTORS UNITED STATES vPATENT OFFICE.y

VANOE MCOREERY AND KING MCCREERY, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

HANGER-BOLT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.. 613,933, dated November 8, 1898.

Application filed May 5,1898. Serial No. 679,775. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, VANOE MOCREERY and KING MCCREERY, citizens of the United States, residing at Toledo, county of Lucas, State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hanger-Bolts; and we vdeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention is designed to provide a novel hanger-bolt; and it consists of the structure hereinafter described and claimed, and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which-'v Figure 1 is a view in elevation and vertical section, showing our improved hanger-bolt. Fig. 2 is a view showing our invention in elevation, the tile to which it is attached being shown in section. Fig. 3 is a detail view illustrating the invention in elevation, the swinging arm being shown in longitudinal position relative to the body of the device and in dotted lines in a position at right angles thereto. Fig. 4 isa view, partly in elevation and partly in section, showing our device secured in place, with the swinging arm in retaining position. Fig. 5 is a view in section on the line 5 5, Fig.y 3.

Our invention has for its object to provide a bolt to secure various devices in place, and more particularly to hollow tiles, to which the device is attached.

The device may also be used4 to suspend various articles to hollow tiles in buildings.

In the drawings, A represents the body of our improved hanger-bolt, which is interiorly threaded at one end, as shown at a. At the opposite end is a swinging arm B, jointedly connected with said body, as indicated at h, one end of saidarm being weighted, as the outer end of said arm, when the arm is in closed position. The body A is constructed with an elongated slot or recess (indicated at a) to allow'one end, as the lighter -end b', of said swinging arm to fold into said body in longitudinal line with said body. The heavier end of said swinging arm is indicated at b2.

O indicates a hollow tile to which our improved hanger-bolt is attached. In order to attach the bolt thereto, the tile is perforated,

as indicated at c.' The swinging arm B is then folded into the body A of the device in longitudinal line with said body, in which position the swinging arm B may readily be inserted through the perforation c of the tile. Then by turning the body A or agitating the device the heavier end b2 of said arm will readily drop down, swinging the arm into position at right angles to said body, in which position the device may readily be held in place.

It is well known that hollow tiles are often faced with marble, as indicated, for example, in Figs. l and 4, D representing a marble slab secured to the tile. Our improved hangerbolt may be found useful to secure marble faces to tile, in which case a screw E maybe engaged in the outer end of the body A, asl shown in Figs. l and 4, the marble slab be' ing provided with an orifice (indicated at e) through which the body A is passed. The device may also be employed in suspending various articles'to the tile, as illustrated, for

example, in Fig. 2, where a hook G may have a threaded engagement in the body A to snp= port a pipe H.

The two uses to which our improved device may be pnt,.(shown in Figs. l, 2, and 3,) it will be understood, are merely samples of uses to which the invention may be applied; but our invention contemplates any and all uses to which the device may be found applicable.

The desirability of a hanger-bolt of this description is evident.v Heretofore it has been common to run a bolt clear through a hollow tile, the bolt extending through opposite sides thereof in order to secure it in place; but our invention dispenses with this necessity and provides a simple, economical, and efficient hanger-bolt. It will be understood that in inserting our improved hanger-bolt in place the bodyA must be inserted a suiicient distance within the hollow tile to enable the swinging arm to freely operate and arrange itself at right angles to the body A, after which the body will be pulled back in the opposite direction, so that the arm at right angles to the body will be snug against the adjacent inner wall of the tile. To remove the device, it will be evident that the body A will be forced a sufeient distance within the tile to allow the swinging arm to operate, when by turning the body into proper position and agitating it slightly the weighted end of Ithe arm will cause the lighter end to drop within the body, in line therewith, after which the device may readily be withdrawn from the tile.

What we claim as our invention isl. A hanger-bolt having in combination a hollow body open at its inner end and provided with a longitudinal slot or recess in one side thereof, a swinging arm jointedly connected with the inner end of said body and weighted at one end, the lighter end of said arm arranged to fold within said hollow body, Substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with a hollow body threaded at one end and open at the other, of a swinging arm jointedly connected to the opposite end of said body, said body con- VANCE MCCREERY. KING MCCREERY.

lVitnesses:

GEO. J ENNINGS, LYMAN W. WACHENHEIMER. 

